wtf. you show up for a free hot dog and there is no dog? fake news crossed a red line with that one.
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Not even if itâs a story about his arrest or conviction?
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O I donât object to things written about him, just anything written by him.
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Nice. I had the same thought. Lenin is credited with coining the term.
Trump is a useful idiot. Ex. Not filling ambassadorial seats around the world including S Korea.
Trumpâs job is to reduce the US footprint around the world. At some point we can be sure that this was the quid pro quo communicated to Trump for the Russian assistance in him getting elected.
I suspect that when itâs all said and done, weâll learn that this was a fabulously successful Russian FSB operation. No dead letter drops, no meetings in parks at night, no LeCarreâ spycraft, but Putin must be pleased: He elected his stooge in the US. Iâve said before, Iâm an amateur Cold War historian. Iâm stunned.
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Well. I never said that our own hypocrisy justifies what Russia has done everywhere on the planet under Putin. So I am not arguing that. I agree that Jimmy Carter was an improvement over Nixon-Ford-Kissinger in terms of imperialism and was concerned about Human Rights in Latin America and the Middle East. He was rewarded by being a one term president replaced by a Jingoist who colluded with the Iranians to get elected, and continued to collude with the Iranians after he was President. And letâs not forget what Reagan did to Nicaragua, which I would define as Terrorism and which cost 45,000 lives and which did, actually, result in an electoral defeat for the Government which rid Nicaragua of the Somoza dynasty. And as we now know, was funded by cocaine dealing and involved help from the Iranians. But I am not justifying what the Russians are doing in Europe, in the former USSR, and obviously in our most recent election. With help from one of our political parties.
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There is no way the Russians could have done this without direction from national GOP propagandists and donors. The Russians sponsored the domestic terrorism but the actual ground game was handled by local conservatives.
There was planning and coordination probably by the same suppliers that conduct robo calls and town halls for Republicans. Look to local pr firms and special event planners and then look for their relationships with the Trump media buys. There will be a definite paper trail here and a lot of vulnerable marketing/communications people who can be easily pumped by the FBI for info. They arenât going to risk their freedom and careers for Trumpâs Russian agents.
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Reducing our imprint in the world and making whatâs left of it so incompetent that Putin is in effect pulling all the strings of the Republican Party.
What a sad state of affairs for the Conservative Movement. They played right into Moscowâs hands and found traitors everywhere within the GOP happy to play along with a foreign power and now an entire Republican Congress willing to condone it.
Greed and the thirst for power has destroyed the Conservative Movement and corrupted all its institutions from evangelicals to Wall Street to local governments and police. They really are fascists with Nazi sentiments.
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Then can we call him a Metaphorical Mixologist?
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Blended Threat
They are very quiet arenât they. Notice that a lot of the commentary over the last couple of months has been that way. When people go quiet, there is a reason. A lot to speculate on.
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I think he hit for the cycle today.
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Is Trounce in this 100, or is he 101.
We are beyond âifâ and on to ânow whatâ.
The administration currently in charge is actively working on denials of collusion and interference which occur after these original events of infiltration. Basically, the Trounce admin is calling Russian involvement a gimme, a known known, and are just skipping right past it. Like its cool.
I guess they donât want to fight on two fronts so by conceding the loss at battle A, they can focus on battle B. Not winning or losing the battle mind you, just focusing on plausible deniability of willful involvement and working with the enemy for traitorous purposes.
The fact that Trounce Co. has zero interest in the proven and growing fact(s) that Russia intentionally interrupted our Democratic processes is an admission by omission.
As POTUS and as lead defender of the nation, Trounce is compelled to react. As a party to the crime, Trounce is compelled to deny and ignore.
The contrast is glaring!
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That was really unambiguousâyou used on instead of in. You were clearly referring to bylines.
Insulting Putinâs Facist ideas is wrong? Who knew?
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DK, but there does seem to be something of a current Ice Age.
Putinâs actions have landed Russia in the penalty box for an unnecessary generation more.
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Um, what was Russia doing in Afghanistan?
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Off topic, sort of. Joshâs podcast this month is with Frank Foer, and his recent writing about the digital gatekeepers doing our thinking for us. As a next interview on this line, Josh might consider interviewing the anthropologist Bev Skeggs, who has been on this topic a bit longer and even sued Facebook in the course of studying âhow Facebookâs monetization refigures the relationship between property, personhood and protest.â It would provide an excellent bookend to Foerâs commentary.
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another one in a long line of seminal TPM articles for future history âbooksâ to link to, TPMâs gems are all going to be even more notable in the far future, once academia figures out how to use them to teach their students the truth about the past.
As news, it is interesting and informative, but as history it will be enlightening.
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Organizing rallies, setting up and funding front groups - this is classic GRU intelligence operations. Spies and saboteurs is a more accurate description of the actors than trolls.